AEs |
Advanced Economies |
AfDB |
African Development Bank |
AIIB |
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank |
ALBA |
Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (Spanish acronym) |
ALBA-TCP |
Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America—Peoples’ Trade Treaty (Spanish acronym) |
AMF |
Asian Monetary Fund |
AMRO |
ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office |
ArMF |
Arab Monetary Fund |
AsDB |
Asian Development Bank |
ASEAN |
Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
ASEAN+3 |
Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus China, Japan, and South Korea |
BDS |
Bank of the South (Spanish acronym) |
BIS |
Bank for International Settlements |
BNDES |
Brazil’s National Economic and Social Development Bank (Portuguese acronym; commonly referred to as Brazilian National Development Bank) |
BRICs |
Brazil, Russian Federation, India, China |
BRICS |
Brazil, Russian Federation, India, China, South Africa |
BWIs |
Bretton Woods institutions |
CAF |
Development Bank of Latin America (formerly known as Andean Development Corporation [Corporación Andina de Fomento]) (Spanish acronym) |
CDB |
China Development Bank |
CMI |
Chiang Mai Initiative |
CMIM |
Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralisation |
COFER |
Currency Composition of Official Foreign Exchange Reserves |
CRA |
Contingent Reserve Arrangement (of the BRICS) |
EBRD |
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
EC |
European Commission |
ECB |
European Central Bank |
EFSD |
Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development |
EFSF |
European Financial Stability Facility |
EIB |
European Investment Bank |
EMDEs |
Emerging Market and Developing Economies |
ESM |
European Stability Mechanism |
EU |
European Union |
FCL |
Flexible Credit Line |
FDI |
Foreign Direct Investment |
Fed |
(U.S.) Federal Reserve |
Finance G-20 |
Group of Twenty finance ministers and central bank governors |
FLAR |
Latin American Reserve Fund (Spanish acronym) |
FSB |
Financial Stability Board |
FSF |
Financial Stability Forum |
G-7 |
Group of Seven countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States) |
G-8 |
Group of Eight countries (G-7, plus Russia) |
G-11 |
Group of Eleven at the World Bank and IMF |
G-20 |
Group of Twenty (G-7, plus Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, and the European Union) |
G-24 |
Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development |
GDP |
Gross Domestic Product |
IADB |
Inter-American Development Bank |
IBRD |
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (of the World Bank) |
IDA |
International Development Association (of the World Bank) |
IEO |
Independent Evaluation Office (of the IMF) |
IIF |
Institute of International Finance |
ILO |
International Labour Organization |
IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
IMFC |
International Monetary and Financial Committee |
(of the IMF) |
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MRDBs |
Main Regional Development Banks |
NAB |
New Arrangements to Borrow |
NAFTA |
North American Free Trade Agreement |
NDB |
New Development Bank (of the BRICS) |
NIEO |
New International Economic Order |
ODA |
Official Development Assistance |
OECD |
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
PBOC |
People’s Bank of China |
PCL |
Precautionary Credit Line |
QE |
Quantitative Easing |
RCT |
Randomized Control Trial |
RMB |
Renminbi (currency of People’s Republic of China) |
SAFE |
State Administration of Foreign Exchange (of China) |
SAP |
Structural Adjustment Program |
SBA |
Stand-By Arrangement |
SDDS |
Special Data Dissemination Standard |
SDGs |
Sustainable Development Goals (of the United Nations) |
SDR |
Special Drawing Right |
SOE |
State-Owned Enterprise |
SUCRE |
Unitary System for Regional Compensation (Spanish acronym) |
SWF |
Sovereign Wealth Fund |
TPP |
Trans-Pacific Partnership |
UN |
United Nations |
UNASUR |
Union of South American Nations (Spanish acronym) |
UNCTAD |
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |
WDI |
World Development Indicators |
WTO |
World Trade Organization |